Format:
x, 68 pages
,
21 cm
ISBN:
9781609383077
Series Statement:
Kuhl House poets
Content:
At once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Books Congotronic takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of bleak prayer; others mingle the earthbound rhythms of hip-hop with the will-to-transcendence of high Romanticism. Harnessing techniques of the cinematic and audio arts, Books poems splice, sample, collage, and jump-cut language from an array of sources, including slave narratives, Western philosophy, hip hop lyrics, and the diaries of plantation owners. In fusing disparate texts, each poem in this collection attempts to create a community in language. Thus, at its core, the project is utopicor more precisely, to borrow from Duke Ellingtonthe project is blutopic
Note:
The Collected Novellas of Gilbert Ryle 13 -- They Are Not Bits of Clockwork 15 -- They Are as Robinson Crusoes, Commanding 16 -- They Are Exploding Just Feet above the Desert Sands 17 -- They Cannot Be Taken to Bits 18 -- They Are Intrinsically Phosphorescent 19 -- They Are Not Motions, Suites, Cabins 20 -- They Foment a Revolt 21 -- They Have a Private Career 22 -- They Are of an Extraordinary Feral Territory 23 -- They Come Home in a Torrent of Laughter and a Nubian Eunuch-Powered Litter 24 -- The Ivorian "because because" 29 -- A Laborious Wakefulness or Was It a Most Unapologetic Whistling in the Ear 30 -- The Colony Mating Song 32 -- Bronze Age 33 -- Chinese Blow Up Doll 35 -- Freetown 37 -- Everywhere 38 -- H.N.I.C. 39 -- Flagelliforms 43 -- Flagelliform 61: Tilted away 45 -- Flagelliform 7 48 -- Flagelliform 21: Exile ("To be sure, hot water kills a man, But cold water too kills a man.") 50 -- Flagelliform 22 52 -- Flagelliform 3 54 -- Flagelliform 45 56 -- Flagelliform 50 59 -- Flagelliform 13: Night Births 60 -- Flagelliform 19: "Snake Foot That Does Not Walk." 62 -- Flagelliform 39: And the Name of That Spear Was, One Place Where It Enters, Nine Places Where the Blood Comes Out 63 -- Flagelliform 79 64.
Language:
English
Keywords:
American poetry
